NASA found Martian life then killed it

Anugraha Sundaravelu, Metro.co.uk, 8/29/23; Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that an experiment carried out in the 1970s that added water to Martian soil drowned any life that could have existed (Unsplash/Metro).

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NASA found alien life on Mars then accidentally killed it, scientist claims

Earthlings blew themselves up!

A scientist claims that we might have already found alien life on Mars 50 years ago but accidentally killed it.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technical University Berlin believes that an experiment carried out in the 1970s that added water to Martian soil could have drowned any life that could have existed.

The test, known as the Viking Labeled Release experiment, was one of three biology experiments conducted by the Viking landers on Mars in 1976.

It was an accident. It was putricide dead.

The experiment was designed to detect the presence of living microorganisms in the Martian soil by measuring the release of radioactive carbon dioxide from a sample of soil that had been mixed with a nutrient solution.

The theory was that if life were on Mars, microorganisms would consume the nutrients and release the radioactive carbon as a gas.

Schulze-Makuch believes the water containing the nutrient solution in the soil may have been too much liquid "and [any life] died off after a while." More

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